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单词 stile
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stile1

noun stʌɪlstaɪl
  • An arrangement of steps that allows people but not animals to climb over a fence or wall.

    (篱、墙)两边的阶梯(供人越过用)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Keep to the right of a small brook and climb steps to reach a stile at the top end of the woodland.
    • I climbed a stile, stepped onto uneven turf and followed what I thought must be the route of the footpath I identified.
    • However, every footpath near my home has fallen trees, drainage problems, walls down, broken fences, gates and stiles.
    • As children, Nick and I would sneak out of the house at night and follow the pressure-treated cedar fences into the yards of our neighbors, climbing the stiles, careful not to wake the dogs.
    • But although they put up stiles across the new fence, walkers and residents feared it would mean access to the well used dam would be restricted.
    • Swing right from the stile and climb the grass bank before bearing left and crossing further stiles to follow a path through woodland.
    • To always use gates and stiles and to avoid damage to walls and fences.
    • Head through the bridle-gate, then walk straight up the steep grassy bank on to reach a stile over a fence.
    • Pine will be used for door frames in information centres, oak for boat repairs at Coniston Boating Centre, signboards, fences and stiles will also be made from the reclaimed timber.
    • It is an offence for a landowner to obstruct a public right of way, and the placing of a new stile, gate or fence can amount to an obstruction, unless it is a replacement of what previously existed.
    • Its lack of steps and stiles makes it fully accessible to horse riders, mountain bikers and walkers.
    • Once, a cattle trough had been set up right next to the stile we had to climb to reach the only footbridge over a small river.
    • Cross the stile and continue along the grassy track with the fence on the right until a wall step stile is reached.
    • The fence includes stiles, a bridle gate and kissing gates which are fully accessible to push-chairs and wheelchair users.
    • Carry on along a cut path through long grass and, just before Hole House, take a step stile over the wall, now on your left.
    • Climb a fence stile at the top of the ridge and the summit of Sour Howes lies ahead.
    • Eventually, we reached a stile that allowed access over the wall to the fields of the Dyer farm.
    • The poems have been carved into a series of stones by letter-cutter Pip Hall, each verse interpreted in such a way as to add to the impact of the words, and then incorporated into walls and stiles, or planted like milestones along the route.
    • Use gates and stiles to cross fences, hedges and walls.
    • The survey, completed in April 2000, highlighted a number of blocked footpaths, inadequate stiles, gates and fences.

Origin

Old English stigel, from a Germanic root meaning 'to climb'.

Rhymes

aisle, Argyle, awhile, beguile, bile, Carlisle, Carlyle, compile, De Stijl, ensile, file, guile, I'll, interfile, isle, Kabyle, kyle, lisle, Lyle, Mikhail, mile, Nile, pile, rank-and-file, resile, rile, Ryle, Sieg Heil, smile, spile, style, tile, vile, Weil, while, wile, worthwhile

stile2

noun stʌɪlstaɪl
  • A vertical piece in the frame of a panelled door or sash window.

    门梃;窗梃。比较RAIL 1(义项3)

    Compare with rail (sense 4 of the noun)
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Remove the rails (the horizontal pieces of the face frame) and bring the stiles (the vertical pieces) together and mark them both for the dowels.
    • Use the same procedure to prevent chipping when cutting across the grain of a solid-wood door's vertical stiles.
    • Then after panels are done, roll out the stiles, which are the vertical pieces and brush after each, then do the rails, which are the horizontal pieces.
    • Usually, joiners cut, carved, and painted all the stiles, rails and panels before putting them together with mortise and tenon joints secured by wooden pins.
    • Drill a clearance hole for a new threaded rivet (same diameter as rivet) through the inner face of the door stile.

Origin

Late 17th century: probably from Dutch stijl 'pillar, doorpost'.

stile1

nounstīlstaɪl
  • An arrangement of steps that allows people but not animals to climb over a fence or wall.

    (篱、墙)两边的阶梯(供人越过用)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I climbed a stile, stepped onto uneven turf and followed what I thought must be the route of the footpath I identified.
    • Carry on along a cut path through long grass and, just before Hole House, take a step stile over the wall, now on your left.
    • Cross the stile and continue along the grassy track with the fence on the right until a wall step stile is reached.
    • Its lack of steps and stiles makes it fully accessible to horse riders, mountain bikers and walkers.
    • The poems have been carved into a series of stones by letter-cutter Pip Hall, each verse interpreted in such a way as to add to the impact of the words, and then incorporated into walls and stiles, or planted like milestones along the route.
    • Swing right from the stile and climb the grass bank before bearing left and crossing further stiles to follow a path through woodland.
    • It is an offence for a landowner to obstruct a public right of way, and the placing of a new stile, gate or fence can amount to an obstruction, unless it is a replacement of what previously existed.
    • To always use gates and stiles and to avoid damage to walls and fences.
    • But although they put up stiles across the new fence, walkers and residents feared it would mean access to the well used dam would be restricted.
    • Keep to the right of a small brook and climb steps to reach a stile at the top end of the woodland.
    • Pine will be used for door frames in information centres, oak for boat repairs at Coniston Boating Centre, signboards, fences and stiles will also be made from the reclaimed timber.
    • Eventually, we reached a stile that allowed access over the wall to the fields of the Dyer farm.
    • Climb a fence stile at the top of the ridge and the summit of Sour Howes lies ahead.
    • Head through the bridle-gate, then walk straight up the steep grassy bank on to reach a stile over a fence.
    • The survey, completed in April 2000, highlighted a number of blocked footpaths, inadequate stiles, gates and fences.
    • However, every footpath near my home has fallen trees, drainage problems, walls down, broken fences, gates and stiles.
    • As children, Nick and I would sneak out of the house at night and follow the pressure-treated cedar fences into the yards of our neighbors, climbing the stiles, careful not to wake the dogs.
    • Once, a cattle trough had been set up right next to the stile we had to climb to reach the only footbridge over a small river.
    • Use gates and stiles to cross fences, hedges and walls.
    • The fence includes stiles, a bridle gate and kissing gates which are fully accessible to push-chairs and wheelchair users.

Origin

Old English stigel, from a Germanic root meaning ‘to climb’.

stile2

nounstīlstaɪl
  • A vertical piece in the frame of a paneled door or sash window.

    门梃;窗梃。比较RAIL 1(义项3)

    Compare with rail (sense 4 of the noun)
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Drill a clearance hole for a new threaded rivet (same diameter as rivet) through the inner face of the door stile.
    • Then after panels are done, roll out the stiles, which are the vertical pieces and brush after each, then do the rails, which are the horizontal pieces.
    • Use the same procedure to prevent chipping when cutting across the grain of a solid-wood door's vertical stiles.
    • Usually, joiners cut, carved, and painted all the stiles, rails and panels before putting them together with mortise and tenon joints secured by wooden pins.
    • Remove the rails (the horizontal pieces of the face frame) and bring the stiles (the vertical pieces) together and mark them both for the dowels.

Origin

Late 17th century: probably from Dutch stijl ‘pillar, doorpost’.

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